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CPSC 233: Winter 2011 Tutorial Schedule

You can find the source code for some the programming examples (written by James Tam) to be covered in tutorial in UNIX in the directory: /home/233/tutorial. You can ask your TA for information regarding the examples that they have written for tutorial.

Week No.

Days

Topics to be covered

1

 Jan 9 – 15
  • No tutorials this week

2

 Jan 16 – 22
  • Discussion of A1
  • Number conversions: binary to/from decimal
  • Twos complement conversions
  • Subtraction using the negate and add technique
  • Introduction to creating programs in Java: input/output, branches, loops
  • Working from home using SSH

3

 Jan 23 - 29
  • Getting input via the Scanner class
  • Bitwise operators
  • Operator precedence
  • Casting
  • Looking up information via the Java API
  • Creating your first Object-Oriented program in Java
  • UML class diagrams
  • Discussion of A2

4

 Jan 30 – Feb 5
  • Converting non Object-Oriented programs to an Object-Oriented version.
  • Information hiding
  • Testing
  • Scope and the 'this' reference
  • Multiplicity
  • Relationships between classes: association

5

 Feb 6 - 12
  • Design exercise: finding the classes, attributes and methods from the requirements.
  • Runtime and the finalize method
  • Discussion of A3
  • Arrays of references to objects

6

 Feb 13 – 19
  • Coverage of 3 miscellaneous utility programs to help you with Assignment 3.
  • Coverage of an additional linked list example
  • (If there is any additional time left over in the second tutorial it will be an open tutorial where you can work on your assignment and the TA will remain available to help and answer questions).
7 Feb 20 - 26
Reading week: no classes will be held
8 Feb 27 – Mar 5
  • Formatting the display of an array using a bounded, numbered grid
  • Generating random numbers
  • References
  • The 'static' keyword
9 Mar 6 - 12
First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday)
  • Recursion
Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday)
  • Open tutorial: TA's will be in the lab and available for help and to answer questions during tutorial time but no new material will be taught.
10 Mar 13 – 19
  • Inheritance: syntax, super(), casting, method overriding, polymorphism
  • Implements: interfaces as a design tool
  • UML: representing inheritance and implements relationship
11 Mar 20 – 26
  • Design exercise: incorporating inheritance
  • Solutions to selected portions of the midterm
12 Mar 27 – April 2
  • Open tutorial this week : TA's will be in the lab and available for help and to answer questions during tutorial time but no new material will be taught.
13 April 3 – April 9
  • Discussion of A6
  • Creating graphical user interfaces
  • File input and output
14 April 10 – 16
First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday)
  • Packages
Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday)
  • Open tutorial: TA's will be in the lab and available for help and to answer questions during tutorial time but no new material will be taught.